New Barriers To Export Of Antibacterial And Antiseptic Textiles

< p > from the Guangdong provincial WTO/TBT advisory and consulting center, the news came out that since the beginning of this year, the EU chemical administration began to impose a mandatory unified management of the biocide (BPR) in the EU market. The BPR regulations have been updated recently. According to the new regulations, the EU will integrate the rules of using and putting the biocide products into the market and rebuild the technical trade measures system of the EU biocide products. This will be another major trade barrier affecting the export of dozens of products such as Guangdong and even the whole country.

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< p > according to incomplete statistics, the total export volume of products exported to the EU in Guangdong under the supervision and regulation of BPR is nearly US $800 billion.

The implementation of the BPR regulations not only has a great impact on the production and export enterprises of sanitary pesticides, but also has a great impact on dozens of products such as textiles, clothing, furniture, footwear, leather, kitchen and toilet products, toys, lamps and lanterns, plastic rubber, paint and coatings, and Mechanical and electrical products.

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< p > it is understood that the irrational use of biocides will cause health hazards such as allergic reactions, and will also have a great impact on the environment.

At present, the preservatives and antibacterial agents used in textile products such as shoes and garments have not yet established uniform regulations.

The implementation of the EU BPR regulations will make the licensing of active substances and the cost of authorization of biocide products become extremely expensive. This will not only impose additional burden on the chemical enterprises that export some biocides active ingredients in China, but will also extend to the export enterprises that use antimicrobial agents and preservatives in dozens of products of textile shoes and clothing products in China.

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The BPR regulations incorporate the "biocides disposal items" into the regulatory control range. For the textile industry, it is necessary to deliver more product information in the supply chain and enforce its strict labeling system if they directly or indirectly provide antibacterial and anti-corrosive textiles to the EU market.

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As one of the most developed economies in the world, the European Union has strict chemical regulations and regulations, and has the global leading role. It is easy to be followed and emulated by other countries and regions.

Not only developed countries, but also developing countries are copying their own chemical regulatory mechanisms.

Once the BPR regulations are widely followed by various countries, it will have a greater impact on the export of biocides and their processed products in Guangdong and even in the whole country.

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< p > at the same time, it also makes the export of biocide products more difficult in China.

Under the BPR regulations, all biocide products must be reviewed by active substances and authorized by the European Union or its member states. At the same time, enterprises requiring assessment must share the data costs of similar products already applied. This makes it impossible for the original enterprise to prohibit the free from data charges by "free riding".

Enterprises have to face high costs, including data charges, administrative fees, agency fees and miscellaneous fees.

Related investigations show that Guangdong's biocide enterprises are mostly SMEs, and their strength is weak. If they fail to respond to BPR regulations, they will have to become ancillary suppliers of authorized EU importers.

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< p > for this reason, Sun Ximin, director of the Standards Department of the Ministry of science and technology development of the China Federation of textile industry, calls on the vast number of textile enterprises to strengthen the study of the relevant provisions of the European and American biocides and the harmful substances in the disposal of articles, and actively join hands with the upstream enterprises to strengthen source control and jointly cope with the challenges posed by the BPR regulations.

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